In Germany, the NABU Environmental Organization filed a lawsuit against the permission of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) for the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the press service of eologists.
The claim concerns the unfinished section of the pipeline “in the exceptional economic zone of Germany.”
BSH rejected this objection April 1, 2021. Therefore, the only way to limit the damage to the Baltic Sea is to sue. In connection with the complaint, construction work in the German site is not yet allowed, “the statement says.
According to German ecologists, the gas pipeline destroys the habitat on the seabed in the area of ”more than 16 football fields”. Specialists also noted that the intervention in the ecosystem requires compensatory measures. “In addition, the question becomes more and more relevant, whether we need this pipeline in general,” they emphasized in an environmental organization.
At the end of April, German authorities wanted to quickly complete and put into operation the Russian export gas pipeline “Northern Stream-2”. The FRG stressed that the country still needs reliable gas supplies from Russia. Initially, the North Stream-2 should have been commissioned at the end of 2019. However, due to the limitations imposed by the United States, its participants began to emerge from the project.
Earlier in April, German environmentalists from the environmental protection organization Deutsche Umwellfe wanted to prevent the construction of the “Northern Flow-2” construction. They appealed to the court of Hamburg demanding to cancel the permission previously issued by the regulator to lay the gas pipeline in German waters.
Before that, the Federal Office for Shipping and Hydrography of Germany (BSH) has already rejected the demand of ecologists. The department stated that the concerns of environmental organizations regarding the fact that the construction of the gas pipeline allegedly harm the nesting birds, did not find confirmations.